Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale - Accuracy   God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs. - those of the canary in 14 days; - those of the barnyard hen in 21 days; - eggs of ducks and geese in 28 days; - those of the mallard in 35 days; - The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.  (Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)    God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. . . .  - The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. - No other quadruped is so made. - God planned that this animal would have a huge body too large to live on two legs. - For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily. - The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. - A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first.   How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation! - Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind. - Each orange has an even...

  T he only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant of nature. ~ Lewis Thomas   Y ours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth. Yours is the dominion O LORD, and  You exalt Yourself as head over all. ~ 1 Chronicles 29:11

  T oday is a good day to look around at  the grandeur of creation. Whether flower or cactus, butterfly or caterpillar, elk or lizard, vegetable garden or compost pile. Our world is magnificent - all of it. Rejoice and give thanks for all of life. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie S ing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. He covers the sky with clouds; He supplies the earth with rain and makes the grass grow on the hills. ~ Psalm 147:8-9

I f people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. ~ Bill Watterson W hen I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,  the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him? And the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor. ~ Psalm 8:3-5

All I have seen teaches me to trust  the Creator for all I have not seen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson  Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,          for I have put my trust in You.  Show me the way I should go,           for to you I lift up my soul.   -Psalm 143:8 

T o see a world in a grain of sand,   And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand    And eternity in an hour.   -William Blake  O LORD, how many are your works!  In wisdom you have made them all;    the earth is full of your creatures!    -Psalm 104:24 (the whole Psalm is GREAT!)